Saint Augustine Quotes

“My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.”

“The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.”

“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.”

“Love has reasons that reason knows not.”

“Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.”

“Love and say it with your life.”

“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”

“It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.”

“I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.”

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

“The argument is at an end.”

“No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.”

“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”

“For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”

“Singing is a lover's thing.”

“Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.”

“Custom is second nature.”

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”

“It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.”

“The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.”

“Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.”

“Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.”

“Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.”

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

“The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.”